"Mid-Twentieth Century: Further Expansion of the Governmental Role in Personal Health"
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The Future of Public Health"; "Copyright"; "Preface"; "Acknowledgements"; "Contents"; "Summary and Recommendations"; "WHY STUDY PUBLIC HEALTH"; "THE APPROACH"; "THE STATE OF U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH"; "The Public Health Mission"; "Professional Expertise and the Political Process"; "Public Health and the Medical Profession"; "The Knowledge Base and its Application"; "THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC HEALTH: RECOMMENDATIONS"; "THE PUBLIC HEALTH MISSION, GOVERNMENTAL ROLE, AND LEVELS OF RESPONSIBILITY"; "Mission"; "The Governmental Role in Public Health"; "Assessment" "Policy Development""Assurance"; "Levels of Responsibility"; "States"; "Federal"; "Localities"; "FULFILLING THE GOVERNMENT ROLE: IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS"; "Statutes"; "Organizational Structure"; "States"; "Localities"; "Federal"; "Special Linkages"; "Environmental Health"; "Mental Health"; "Social Services"; "Care of the Indigent"; "Strategies for Capacity Building"; "Technical"; "Political"; "Managerial"; "Programmatic"; "Fiscal"; "Education for Public Health"; "CONCLUDING REMARKS" "1 The Disarray of Public Health: A Threat to the Health of the Public ""IMMEDIATE CRISES"; "AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)"; "Access to Health Care for the Indigent"; "ENDURING PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEMS"; "Injuries"; "Teen Pregnancy"; "Control of High Blood Pressure"; "Smoking and Substance Abuse"; "GROWING CHALLENGES AND IMPENDING CRISES"; "Toxic Substances"; "Alzheimer's Disease or Dementia of the Alzheimer Type"; "Revitalization of Public Health Capacities"; "REFERENCES"; "2 A Vision of Public Health in America: An Attainable Ideal " "A DEFINITION OF PUBLIC HEALTH""The Mission of Public Health"; "The Substance of Public Health"; "The Organizational Framework of Public Health"; "The Role of Government in Public Health"; "The Functions of Government in Public Health"; "Assessment"; "Policy Development"; "Assurance"; "State, Local, and Federal Roles in Public Health"; "State Governments"; "Federal Government"; "Local Governments"; "The Public and Private Sectors in Public Health"; "THE BASIC SERVICES OF PUBLIC HEALTH"; "REFERENCES"; "3 A History of the Public Health System "; "HISTORY" "Before the Eighteenth Century""The Eighteenth Century"; "The Nineteenth Century: The Great Sanitary Awakening"; "The Sanitary Problem"; "The Development of Public Activities in Health"; "Late Nineteenth Century: Enter Bacteriology"; "The Development of State and Local Health Department Laboratories"; "The Successes of Bacteriology"; "Early Twentieth Century: The Move Toward Personal Care"; "Further Development of State and Local Health Agencies"; "The Growth of Federal Activities in Health"